tree d173f7199e58e2265b802149132c981e4719c8e4
parent 481795de1348d939d01c3ec12e317ad51d0d0cca
author Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1619185007 +0200
committer Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1619193786 +0200
encoding latin1

MINOR: time: avoid overwriting the same values of global_now

In tv_update_date(), we calculate the new global date based on the local
one. It's very likely that other threads will end up with the exact same
now_ms date (at 1 million wakeups/s it happens 99.9% of the time), and
even the microsecond was measured to remain unchanged ~70% of the time
with 16 threads, simply because sometimes another thread already updated
a more recent version of it.

In such cases, performing a CAS to the global variable requires a cache
line flush which brings nothing. By checking if they're changed before
writing, we can divide by about 6 the number of writes to the global
variables, hence the overall contention.

In addition, it's worth noting that all threads will want to update at
the same time, so let's place a cpu relax call before trying again, this
will spread attempts apart.